Carcinoid heart disease in an elderly female patient: the value of transthoracic echocardiography

Hellenic J Cardiol. 2017 Jan-Feb;58(1):65-68. doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2017.01.018. Epub 2017 Feb 2.

Authors

Pavlos Stougiannos¹, George Michas¹, Constantinos Evdoridis¹, Petroula Arapantoni-Dadioti², Panagiotis Tolios¹, Ioannis Kaplanis¹, Athanasios Trikas³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² MICROMEDICA LABS, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: atrikas@otenet.gr.

PMID: 28163144
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjc.2017.01.018

No abstract available

Keywords: carcinoid heart disease; carcinoid syndrome; octreoscan; transthoracic echocardiography.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aftercare
Aged
Ascites / drug therapy
Ascites / surgery
Carcinoid Heart Disease / complications
Carcinoid Heart Disease / diagnostic imaging*
Carcinoid Heart Disease / drug therapy
Carcinoid Heart Disease / pathology
Carcinoid Tumor / complications
Carcinoid Tumor / pathology*
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Liver / diagnostic imaging
Liver / pathology
Neuroendocrine Tumors / complications*
Neuroendocrine Tumors / pathology
Neuroendocrine Tumors / secondary
Paracentesis / methods
Somatostatin / analogs & derivatives
Somatostatin / metabolism
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Somatostatin
pentetreotide